Archaeology by period / region
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Monumentality, Place-making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus
This book adopts an integrative approach to investigate the role of monumental architecture in shaping social dynamics and power relations on the island of Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age (LBA; c.1700-1050 BCE). Using such an approach, archaeologists studying ancient societies elsewhere can analyz...
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Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in the Bronze Age
Jesse C. Long, William G. Dever
In recognition of the significant contribution that Suzanne Richard has made to the archaeology of the Early Bronze Age in the southern Levant, this Festschrift represents the best of scholarship in her areas of interest and publication in the field. Professor Richard is known for her work on the Ea...
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Seaways to Complexity
This book focuses on the sociopolitical development and the organisational differences between societies in northwestern Scandinavia in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (2350-1100 BCE). Grounded in a political economy approach, the book presents a theoretical model that emphases a dialectic n...
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Animal Iconography in the Archaeological Record
Laerke Recht, Katarzyna Zeman-Wisniewska, Nicola Scheyhing, Evangelia Voulgari, Marie Nicole Pareja, Lucia Alberti, Giambattista Bello, Igor Chechuchkov, Emma Usmanova, Olga Gumirova, Lonneke Delpeut, Joanne M. Lawrence, Nathalie del Socorro, Anna-Elisa Stumpel, Branka Franicevic, Tonno Jonuks
Laerke Recht, Katarzyna Zeman-Wisniewska
Animals pervade our lives, both today and in the past. From the smallest bug through pets and agricultural animals to elephants and blue whales, the animals themselves, animal-derived products and representations of animals can be found everywhere in our daily lives. This book focuses on the represe...
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Perspectives on Differences in Rock Art
Jan Magne Gjerde, Mari Strifeldt Arntzen
Rock art is a global phenomenon with an enormous variation in shapes and figures and the research interest is wide and inclusive. The volume aims to explain differences observed in rock art through time and space, synchronically or diachronically. Differences can for example be in form, content, spa...
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The Geography of Urbanism in Roman Asia Minor
The Geography of Urbanism in Roman Asia Minor investigates how Roman urbanism manifested itself in Asia Minor during the first three centuries CE, particularly with regards to its spatial patterning over the landscape and the administrative, economic and cultural functions cities fulfilled, and how...
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Archaeology of Urban Bondage
The unexpected re-discovery and the ensuing excavation of the African Burial Ground – known in the 18th century as the “Negro Burial Ground” – lifted the lid on the early history of African presence in this part of the United States East Coast. The African Burial Ground Memorial...
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Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean
Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean brings together a series of papers that explore theoretical and material approaches to connectivity and mobility in the ancient Central and Western Mediterranean. The diverse contributions span the period of...